The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02

| ing the body out. Now they have him in
the hearse." With every new announce
ment the little group of friends set up a new
wall, and there was no pause till the pro-
cession had disappeared behind a hill-E1ec-
tricdl ReCieU.
Other Localities.
GLADSTONE is again confined to his bed
with cold
A SLIGHT earthquake was felt in Nebraska
Thursday night
SIX comets are said to be visible with the
aid of telescopes.
IT is rumored that the President will veto
the new pension bill.
SEVENTEEN new towns were started in
Brown county, Dakota, last year
STANLEY, the explorer, has reached Cairo,
Egypt, on his way to rescue Emin Bey.
FIVE new cases of smallpox and one
death were reported in New York Friday.
JAY GOULD says the interstate commerce
bill will stop railroad-building in the West.
SENATOR FARwELL of Illinois, Logan's
successor, took the oath and his chair last
week.
FIRE at Dallas, Texas, destroyed $500 900
worth of property in the business part of
the city
SIX hundred police are preparing to assist
| in seventy evictions on the Bodyke estate,
County Clare.
MR. GOULD has DOuBnl INC SOulntTu ulNlS-
ion of the Arkansas Valley railroad route
for S1S,000,000.
The British steamer Blar-At has
foundered in the Black sea. Twenty per-
sons were drowned.
THE Texas senate has passed "a bill appro-
priating 100000 for the immediate relief of
the drouth sufferers.
LARGE numbers of people are reported to
be dying in the Argentine Republic from
some epidemic disease.
The municipal woman suffrage bill has
| passed the Kansas senate by vote of
twenty-five to thirteen.
HEAVY rain has fallen at all points east of
the Mississippi river, and floods on the
Ohio and other large rivers are feared
AS IA result of the Spies-Nan Iandt scandal
a bill has been introduced in the Illinois
Legislature to prohibit marriages in Jail.
THE altar light in St. Stephens, New
York, has gone out, and DIR. McGlynn's
parishioners are more angry than ever.
THOMAS b. CoNNERY, formerly managing
editor of the New York Herdld, has been
made secretary of the legation to Mexico.
Mrs. FRANK f. FRENCH of Laconia, n. H.,
was dangerously poisoned by eating canned
dandelions, and lies in critical condition.
The British house of commons Friday
was thrown into an uproar by Sir Michael
| Hcks-Beach advocating Irish repatriation.
SERIOUS floods have occurred in southern
Queensland. Fifty-eight persons have been
drowned and much damage done to prop
erty.
AN attempt was made Monday Dit is
| thought by strikers) to destroy the Old
| Dominion steamship Guyandotte by dyna-
mite.
DIR. SCHooLER, dean of the Iowa College
of Physicians and Surgeons, has been ar
rested, charged with completely in grave
robbery.
THE treasurer of the Germana Savings
Bank of Jersey City, n. j.. is missing, with
| 10000. Probably gone to the Montreal
carnival.
The strikers in New York are unable
to prevent the steamship companies from
employing new men and loading their
steamers.
SENATOR FAIRS son, while drunk, at
tempted to shoot Congressman Page of
California because he declined to drink
with him.
RAYMOND BELMONT, aged twenty, son Of
the banker, August Belmont of New York,
shot himself fatally Monday. Probably
| accidental.
A SLEIGH containing four men was struck
by train near Wabasha, MINI. The
horses were killed outright and three men
fatally hurt.
MIR. GLADSTONE arrived in London last
Wednesday. All the way from Hawarden
he was enthusiastically cheered at the rail-
way stations.
IT is understood that United States Treas
urer Jordan is about to resign, to take the
presidency of a bank about to be organized
in New York.
AxEL the five-year-old son of Gabriel
Gabrielson, Swede, was drowned at Pitts
field, n. H., by sliding into Suncook river
while coasting.
The Michigan legislature, by the action
of the senate, determine to give the people a
chance to vote on the constitutional prohi-
| bitiOn question
The British government declares its in
tention to sustain Canada in its fishery
rights but with every desire to conciliate
the United States.
MRS. LOGAN has had to pay more than
$50, it is said, in telegraph charges on
messages of coincidence received the few
days after the generals death,
THE legislative committee of the Knights
| of Labor wrote to President Cleveland ask
| ing him to veto the interstate commerce bill
because its language is obscure
THERE was a terrific explosion of giant
powder in transit on the Missouri Pacific
railway, killing one man. The explosion
was felt twenty-five miles distant.
THE police raded No. 1876 Fulton street,
Brooklyn, known as the Chinese tea-store,
battered down the door and captured sew
enty-four Chinese who were gambling and
600 in cash.
THE origin of the recent great fire in
Yverdon, Switzerland, has been traced to
anarchists, who set fire to many buildings
with the object of making work for unem-
ployed persons.
The senate committee on privileges and
elections has appointed the following sub
committee to investigate the alleged Texas
outrages: Messrs. Evarts, Teller, Spooner,
Pugh and Eustis.
THERE was excitement at st. Stephen s
church in New York Thursday night, per-
sons seeking the confessional refusing the
offices of Father Donnelly, The police had
TO clear the premises.
IT is expected that, as a result of the
McGlynn affair, the Pope will address an
encyclical letter to the Catholics of America
on the attitude of Catholicism toward the
rising tide of democracy.
In the secret session of the senate the
nomination of j. G. Matthews of Albany
, N Y. (colored), recorder of deeds of Wash
ngton, was rejected. The vote is under
stood to have been seventeen to thirty-one
GENERAL CHARLES p STONE, who was
, prominent in the Egyptian war as Stone
Pacha, died in New York last week. His
blunder in riskng battle at Balls Bluff in
October, 1861, in which the Union troops
were defeated, caused his arrest and con
> linement in Fort Lafayette during the fol
lowing year.
The first reunion of the Sons of Vermont
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